Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Meantime the main waves of Germany's attack rose higher between Noyon on the Oise River and Soissons on the Aisne. The Oise valley was Hitler's broadest, easiest approach to Paris. To command it fully his forces had to storm the high bridge called Chemin des Dames-just north of the Oise-Aisne Canal, and then win a foothold on the Aisne's south bank, to converge on Compiegne and the scene of the 1918 Armistice's signing. This they accomplished by the battle's fifth evening, with appalling loss of life...
With headquarters at 47 Mt. Auburn Street, the newly-formed "Friends of France" are beginning a drive today for old clothes of all sorts to be sent to stricken regions in France. Because of the appeal of the French High Command and the Department of Health, the committee, under the leadership of Miss Anne Morgan, is hoping to send a large number of cases of clothes to France...
...believe that we now have a large stake in preventing Nazi domination of Europe. Until such time as American interests can be merged in the larger interests of an international order (in which so many of us had placed our earlier hopes)-until that time the national state must command our loyalties. I have no more sympathy than many undergraduates I know for certain types of Anglophile and Francophile enthusiasm deriving from sentimental considerations and unconnected with basic American interests. I, too, have many close friends in France and England. But I have such friends as well in Germany...
...stamp out "fifth-column stuff" among the nation's tramps, Jeff Davis ("King of the Hobos") announced the formation of a hobo constabulary to be known as Jungle Bulls,* under the command of famed gate-crasher "One Eye" Connolly. Said King Davis: "Hobos are the best friends this country has. They're loyal...
...Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, who is now busily denying he ever was a fellow traveler, was named lieutenant colonel of intelligence in California's National Guard. His "duty": to make public and radio speeches come M Day. Wags suggested that "Comrade" Harry Bridges might be given command of the militia...